The feminisation of international migration (Laura Oso Casas / Jean-Pierre Garson)

The feminisation of international migration
Laura Oso Casas / Jean-Pierre Garson
2005

For a long time, the typical migrant was been viewed as male and, until three decades ago, female migration was generally overlooked. Since the middle of the 1970s, there has been a growning interest in women`s immigration, first with the increase in family reunification, especially in Europe, and from the 1980s until today, the growning recruitmen of migrant women for labour market needs, especially in sevices. This paper will first examine the four main phases in the development of studies on immgrant women, throug a classification of the literature on the feminisation of migration. The paper will then address the question: do recent data on immigrant women indicate a trend towards the feminisation of migration? (...)

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